[GMMAC]

"My children moved into public school this year in Mississauga ..."

As we be talkin' the Peel Board, you be always keepin' your guard up FRiend.

Dunno if you're aware but, right up until she left for Ottawa in 1993, its Chair was the incredibly vile Carolyn Parrish. To say she left her mark is putting it mildly. If it's not the most communistic school board in all of Canada - which, personally, I'd be willing to argue - it would definitely make the top 10, if not top 2 or 3!, of any conservative who follows education fairly closely.

BTW, not that our local Catholic Board is all that much better:
Back in the 1980's, at a meeting of it's elementary teachers' union executive, a motion failed to carry be a single vote which would have imposed a compulsory additional dues checkoff on all of its members to provide on-going funding to the damned Sandinistas !!!
Straight goods - you can't make stuff like that up.

[timsbella]

GMMAC, I need to tell you the Catholics have been especially kind to the Jews in Peel district. Our Hebrew school is run under the International Languages program within the Separate School system - the public schools wouldn't have us, even though are tax dollars are required to support them. My kids use your schools to have Hebrew learning (language and religious) twice a week - from preschool to grade ten. You are incredibly gracious and we are grateful. There may be crucifixes in the classrooms, but there are also mezzuzim on the doors.